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Faculty Honors

National Academy of Sciences

Peter Saulson, 2017 Award for Scientific Discovery

M. Cristina Marchetti, Elected Member, 2019

American Physical Society: Prizes

Peter Bergmann, 2003 Einstein Prize

Lisa Manning, 2018 Maria Goeppert Mayer Prize

Sheldon Stone, 2019 W. K. H. Panofsky Prize

M. Cristina Marchetti, 2019 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize

American Physical Society: Fellows

Artuso, Marina [2007]
Citation: For achievements in building RICH and silicon detectors for high energy experiments and for studies of heavy quark decays.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Bachman, C H [1964]†
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Balachandran, Aiyalam P. [1988]
Citation: For originating work of seminal importance on nonperturbative, geometrical, and topological aspects of field theory and his work on solitons, monopoles, and non-Abelian anomalies.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Bergmann, P G [1949]†
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Bowick, Mark John [2004]
Citation: With formidable analytic skills, numerical simulations and energetic collaborations with experimentalists, Mark Bowick has made significant contributions to understanding polymerized membranes and defect arrays in frozen topographies.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Brown, Duncan A. [2014]
Citation: For leadership in all aspects of the search for gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences, including algorithms, waveform templates, pipelines, statistical interpretation, and connection with general relativity and astrophysics.
Nominated by: Division of Gravitational Physics 

Catterall, Simon [2016]
Citation: For numerous important contributions to computational physics and lattice field theory through studies of gravity, technicolor, and especially the lattice formulation of supersymmetric field theories.
Nominated by: Division of Computational Physics

Fredrickson, W R [1953]†
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Ginsburg, Nathan [1957]†
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Glauser, Mark [2007]
Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Citation: For his innovative use of multi-point low-dimensional methods to elucidate key physics associated with time dependent flow phenomena for flow control applications in turbulent jets, shear layers and separated flows.
Nominated by: Division of Fluid Dynamics

Goldberg, Joshua N [1972]
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields 

Goldberg, Marvin [1999]
Citation: For his distinguished career in elementary particle research, including the discovery of the Omega Minus baryon, and other discoveries in meson spectroscopy, science education, and service to the community.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Horwitz, Nahmin [1988]†
Citation: For contributions to the study of elementary particles.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields
Nahmin spent his entire career at SU, retiring in 2004 after more than 40 years.

Hudson, Bruce Samuel [1993]
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
Citation: For pioneering achievements in molecular spectroscopy and development of novel laser Raman techniques, for excellence in training scientists and for distinguished service to the chemical physics community.
Nominated by: Division of Chemical Physics

Marchetti, M. Cristina [2000]
Citation: For contributions to the theory of the dynamics of vortex matter and charge-density waves.
Nominated by: Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Middleton, A. Alan [2010]
Citation: For his innovative numerical studies of the dynamical and static properties of disordered condensed matter systems, including charge density waves, spin glasses and disordered elastic media.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Rohrlich, Fritz [1957]†
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Ross, Jennifer L [2018]
Citation: For significantly advancing understanding of the self-organizational principles of the microtubule cytoskeleton via motor proteins and severing enzymes and how that organization affects intracellular transport. Also, for outstanding service to DBIO and the biophysics community.
Nominated by: Division of Biological Physics

Santangelo, Christian [2019]
Citation: For seminal theoretical contributions exploiting geometry and topology to understand the elasticity of soft materials.
Nominated by: Topical Group on Soft Matter

Saulson, Peter R [2003]
Citation: For his contributions to experimental gravitational physics including pioneering studies of thermal mechanisms affecting interferometer performance and for his educational contributions including authoring one of the most influential books in the field.
Nominated by: Division of Gravitational Physics 

Schiff, Eric [2011]
Citation: For pioneering applied physics research on thin film silicon photovoltaic materials and devices.
Nominated by: Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics 

Skwarnicki, Tomasz [2000]
Citation: For original work in the areas of rare b decays and Upsilon spectroscopy and outstanding achievements in detector reconstruction software and detector construction.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Sorkin, Rafael Dolnick [1999]
Citation: For his original contributions to quantum gravity based on partially ordered or casual sets of discrete space-time; also for his idea of the role of quantum mechanical entanglement in understanding black hole entropy.
Nominated by: Division of Gravitational Physics 

Souder, Paul [1998]
Citation: For precise measurements of the effects of electroweak interactions in few-body systems, leading to fundamental information about muonium, muonic helium, and the spin structure of the nucleon.
Nominated by: Division of Nuclear Physics 

Stone, Sheldon Leslie [1993]
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the study of b-quark decays.
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields

Vidali, Gianfranco [2006]
Citation: In recognition of significant contributions to our understanding of atom-surface interactions and seminal experimental investigations in astrochemistry.
Nominated by: American Physical Society

Wali, Kameshwar C [1968]
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: Division of Particles and Fields